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		<title>Bearing Witness</title>
		<link>http://robinkirk.com/wordpress/archives/314</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I was included in a panel with James Dawes, who teaches literature at Macalester College. This was at Elon College, hosted by Safia Swimelar, who is teaching a human rights class and helping her students put on a performance of Ariel Dorfman&#8217;s Speak Truth to Power.
Dawes&#8217; book, That the World May Know: Bearing Witness [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend shared with me Glenn Greenwald&#8217;s post on Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol&#8217;s sickening new ad campaign.
Don your Hazmat suit, gloves, helmet and goggles and watch it here.
In the ad, they describe Eric Holder&#8217;s Department of Justice as the &#8220;Department of Jihad.&#8221; Reason? The DOJ  employs nine lawyers who previously represented Guantanamo detainees (including Deputy Solicitor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doctors without Morals</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Medical Association]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A much-needed oped in Sunday&#8217;s New York Times, pointing out that the government&#8217;s investigations of legal misconduct on the part of John Yoo and Jay Bybee have not been matched by inquiries into how medical professionals designed and implemented torture.
Leonard Rubenstein and Stephen Xenakis write that &#8220;the government doctors and psychologists who participated in and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Downfall of Human Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Kay Reibold of the Montagnard Human Rights Organization for forwarding on to me Joshua Kurlantzick&#8217;s piece, The Downfall of Human Rights.
As I commented on the Newsweek site, I value the analysis, since it&#8217;s important to evaluate how &#8212; or whether &#8212; human rights as an approach to alleviating some human suffering is working. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can human rights trials improve mental health?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Kirk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Duke Human Rights Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robin Kirk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War crimes tribunals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[truth]]></category>
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Today, we hosted Dr. Jeffrey Sonis from UNC-Chapel Hill. He&#8217;s been studying the international human rights trials in Cambodia, to see if trials produce measurable effects on the mental health of victims who suffer from trauma (or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, according to the lingo). This was an event cosponsored with the Duke Global Health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The cost of convicting innocents&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://robinkirk.com/wordpress/archives/293</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Duke Human Rights Center was lucky to be a part of an event marking the end of an art exhibition examining the human cost of capital punishment. Malaquias Montoya, the artist, is well known for his political work (and his images are familiar to me from having lived in Berkeley in the 1980s and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Americans torture&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://robinkirk.com/wordpress/archives/290</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Kirk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If Americans torture and it comes to light &#8212; as it inevitably will &#8212; it embitters and alienates the very people we need most.&#8220;
Charles C. Krulak was commandant of the Marine Corps from 1995 to 1999. Joseph P. Hoar was commander in chief of U.S. Central Command from 1991 to 1994.
Some of the most hard-hitting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CIA and Torture</title>
		<link>http://robinkirk.com/wordpress/archives/287</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Kirk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robin Kirk]]></category>
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The just-released report by the CIA Inspector General (CIA IG) is one of a series of documents released yesterday about the US torture program. The report dates from 2004, but has lots of new detail.
What you need to know about yesterday&#8217;s revelations (via Time&#8217;s Michael Scherer):
 
1. The CIA IG concluded that the public had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group</title>
		<link>http://robinkirk.com/wordpress/archives/285</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Kirk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama Administration just announced the creation of a new, multi-institution group that will take over the questioning of high-value suspects in the &#8220;war on terror.&#8221; According to the Los Angeles Times, interrogators will &#8220;stay within the parameters of the Army Field Manual when questioning suspects,&#8221; meaning no torture.
This comes on a day when we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American troops to the Congo?</title>
		<link>http://robinkirk.com/wordpress/archives/283</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Kirk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crimes against humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Secretary Clinton&#8217;s trip to Africa highlighting the fighting that continues in the Congo, an opinion piece in the Washington Post is calling for American troops to support the tiny UN force.
Michael O&#8217; Hanlon, at Brookings writes:
If the situation is to improve, we need to do the one thing that is required above all others [...]]]></description>
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